Quotes about Nautical

against every ship of Tarshish, and against every stately vessel.

Nothing, not even a horse-breeding establishment, eats cash like a ship, and none gobbles it more greedily than a trireme.

in those days, the Corrected Hydrographic Sailing Directions for the Mediterranean, say, or the tables in Brown's Nautical Almanac. Under the charm of these rich I was as trusting and as stupid as a bird dog who wants to go out with any man with a gun, or a trained pig